To provide a compact creel occupying smaller space in a production floor, decreasing yarn waste in production process and capable of producing same amount of those produced by using conventional creels.

The compact creel utilizes frames 22. Each frame 22 includes holders for holding yarn packages 30 facing front 24 and back 26 and affixed to the frame 22, a header 32 for directing a yarn 33 from the yarn packages 30 to a tufting machine 58 and affixed to the frame 22 and an antistatic flexible tube 50 for leading a yarn 33 from the holders to the header 32. The header 32 provides for aligning all the yarn ends in the same plane to join them to ends already threaded into the tufting machine 58.